CVE-2003-0466

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

27/08/2003

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

Off-by-one error in the fb_realpath() function, as derived from the realpath function in BSD, may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated in wu-ftpd 2.5.0 through 2.6.2 via commands that cause pathnames of length MAXPATHLEN+1 to trigger a buffer overflow, including (1) STOR, (2) RETR, (3) APPE, (4) DELE, (5) MKD, (6) RMD, (7) STOU, or (8) RNTO.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

10.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:wu_ftpd:2.6.1-16:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:wuftpd:wu-ftpd::::::::	2.5.0 (including)	2.6.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.2.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.2.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd::::::::	4.0 (including)	5.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd::::::::	1.5 (including)	1.6.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd::::::::	2.0 (including)	3.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0:::::sparc::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2003-0466

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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